Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila,

Philippines

Basilica Minore de San Sebastin is the only all-steel church in Asia and the
only prefabricated steel church in the world. Completed in 1891, the basilica
is constructed in the Gothic revival style and is considered to be one of the
best examples of this architectural type in the Philippines. The pre-fabricated
steel sections of the church were produced in Binche, Belgium and
transported by water to Manila. After connecting the parts, the walls were
filled with mixed sand, gravel and cement.
Although the popular culture mentions Gustave Eiffel as one of the architects
of this Basilica, there are no records to prove this. The only known architect
of Basilica of San Sebastian is Genaro Palacios.

Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New

York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States.
Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by
spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and
was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally
referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River
Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an
earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and
formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has
become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic
Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in
1972.
DESIGN
Although the Brooklyn Bridge is technically a suspension bridge, it uses a
hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge design. The towers are built
of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. The granite blocks were
quarried and shaped on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, under a contract with the
Bodwell Granite Company, and delivered from Maine to New York by
schooner.
The bridge was built with numerous passageways and compartments in its
anchorages. New York City rented out the large vaults under the bridge's
Manhattan anchorage in order to fund the bridge. Opened in 1876, the vaults
were used to store wine, as they were always at 60 F (16 C). This was

called the "Blue Grotto" because of a shrine to the Virgin Mary next to an
opening at the entrance. When New York visited one of the cellars about 102
years later, in 1978, it discovered, on the wall, a "fading inscription" reading:
"Who loveth not wine, women and song, he remaineth a fool his whole life
long."

Seagram Building

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue,

between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
The structure was designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der
Rohe while the lobby and other internal aspects were designed by Philip
Johnson,[6] including The Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. Severud
Associates were the structural engineering consultants.
The building stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories, and was completed
in 1958. It stands as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic
and a masterpiece of corporate modernism. It was designed as the
headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram's & Sons with the
active interest of Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of Samuel Bronfman,
Seagram's CEO. It has the worst Energy Star rating of any building in New
York, at 3 out of 100.

Structure
The 38-story structure combines a steel moment frame and a steel and reinforced
concrete core for lateral stiffness. The concrete core shear walls extend up to the 17th
floor, and diagonal core bracing (shear trusses) extends to the 29th floor.[15]

According to Severud Associates, the structural engineering consultants, it was the first
tall building to use high strength bolted connections, the first tall building to combine a
braced frame with a moment frame, one of the first tall buildings to use a vertical truss
bracing system and the first tall building to employ a composite steel and concrete
lateral frame.